Cycle 17 – Item 112
Post 5,956
27 (Mon) April 2026
Dweji Gukbap Jeongsik
4.0
at Baekmudong
-Mugyo, Jongro, Seoul, Republic of Korea-
solo
As noted in yesterday’s circuit tour of the national capital region (see generally 17.111 Spaghetti Assassina), we will be hosting a booth at the Seoul Outdoor Library, starting this Friday – stay tuned for more details.
With only 3 days left to prepare (set-up is Thursday), I went to Seoul Plaza to conduct the first “ocular inspection” of the site (as we called it at WHO) and meet with the organizers to discuss final details – all of this should’ve been done weeks/months ago, but the project had come up at the last minute.
Baekmudong is a Korean restaurant. Specializing in dweji gukbap.
After my business with the library was over, I had dinner before going home.
The food was excellent. For starters, the jeongsik option (full set) came with a steamer of sliced pork, exquisitely tender and sweet, served on a bed of bean sprouts with a dipping sauce of minced garlic + gochujang. The gukbap, with more of the same pork, was deeply meaty in flavor without a hint of pork funk that cheaper gukbap can often have. Reminded me of that amazing experience in Busan (see generally 16.190 Suyuk (Assorted Boiled Meat Slices)), where dweji gukbap orginates.
(See RESTAURANTS IN KOREA)
(See GLOBAL FOOD GLOSSARY)
(See HANSIK)
(See BOOZE)